SE Banning players with large amounts of gil?

[Serinus]

It seems from initial reports that the magic numbers are

• >8m for August non-legacy servers
• >2m for servers released September 12th or Sepember 4th.

[Aphraell]

[QUOTE=SpayedNeko;1340378]QUOTE]

This is a pretty stupid comment. So your saying that for anyone who legitimately sells items in the Market Place and has had their items bought out buy a unknowingly by Gil seller its ok for their account to be suspended? If that's the case, no one is a safe using the market board. Or another scenario, I have a expensive item sell in the Market Place and I contact the buyer(Name listed in Retainer transactions) and ask if they would like me to craft them anything else. They agree, I craft the item and we do a direct trade.

Doing a global ban hammer on people over certain Gil limits is ridiculous.

Reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._suspended_if/

[SpayedNeko]

Did i say its a good thing, or that i agree with it? In an ideal world people who didnt knowingly participate in RMT wouldn't get caught in the net, but when RMT characters use the same methods to transfer gil/crystals etc as those who legitimatly use the marketplace, people get caught in the net. So please, tell me how you would tell the difference between the two going simply by logs of items sold/bought on the marketplace. When it comes to RMT as widespread as it's getting, people will get caught in the net even though they did nothing wrong. I agree it does suck for the innocent players, but what else can SE do but play it carefuly and double check everything?

[Bruiser_Cruiser]

Wow. Just wow... I feel horrible for the people that legitimately acquired their gil. I mean this has to hit REALLY hard on the people that truly enjoy this game and enjoyed making the 10m+ they have. I know theres tons of people that are going to "say" yea i obtained all my gil without the use of RMT, and im sure a lot of them are gonna be liars but im absolutely sure there are plenty of you out there that did earn it the right way and are upset about it. I know i would be hotter then a skillet with SE had i obtained 10m only to be banned for taking advantage of a new market economy. My deepest regards go out to the folks that got banned that didn't server it.


Now... This is going to contradict myself but honestly I am surprised at SE for taking such aggressive action to handle this problem. I mean look at it this way, everyone got banned for 72 hours. Hopefully they are able to clearly decipher who bought gold for real money and who didn't. If they do, and they perma ban the ones that did. Imagine how much gil thats going to take out of the economy. It would definitely make everyone elses gil worth more. Sellers would have to drop prices to sell things most likely but i think it will balance out for the better in hopefully a short amount of time.
Just try for a minute to look at both perspectives. Again that sucks royally for the "good guys" that got banned but try try try to look at it in a positive light.

[Spoolx]

I hope some of you guys that are getting banned are the guys that believed that everyone that got banned for RMT spam were obviously gil buyers or cheaters.

[Herase]

Second, if your account is on hold then there must be a reason. You ended up in the RMT food chain somewhere and SE is trying to figure out how and why. Be patient. Unless you are obviously guilty, the worst that can happen is you lose a couple days. It's worth it in the long run.

This was what i was thinking. Normally people buy gold because they want to purchase something on the marketplace which costs a lot of gil, so legit players end up getting the gold bought from the sellers.

Also it's a trick gold sellers use to transition gold. The player puts an item up for the amount of gold they bought and the gold seller buys it. So it's kind of not surprising that SE is getting a bit suspicious of people selling stuff for super high prices when quite a few people are finding it hard to make money.

Like you said best wait and see, then judge after the investigation is over .

[Hanemakikaze]

I wouldn't believe anyone on the internet saying they are legit and got suspended, when you get unsuspended then maybe I'll believe it.

[Aphraell]

Like you said best wait and see, then judge after the investigation is over .

? Seriously?

I pay a subscription to play this game. I'm buying a service. That service is not being provided. For all the people saying to wait it out that's just crap. A lot of us have done nothing wrong and want to play the damn game we are paying for.

If I come across angry I truly believe I have reason to be angry.

[Minigae]

Your friend was buying gil. These lies pop up every time there is a ban wave from the so-called innocent but it is always people that know damn well they cheated in some way. Should permanent ban the suspected account and this guy defending him both. RMT and bots are out of control good job SE lets get some more bans going.

[scarebearz]

I know I've done nothing wrong and will be un-suspended.

What I'm annoyed about is the time/gil I will have lost.

The many of same people accusing us on here as beaning cheats, will probably end up in the same position as us sooner or later. Lets see what they say then